These are heady times for the Democratic Party, enjoying control of both houses of Congress as it does. The result seems to be that the left is gyrating more and more wildly out of control.
The Iraq war is a case in point. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in full-scale undermine-the-war-effort mode. He couldn't be working harder for the terrorist insurgents in Iran if he was on their full-time payroll.
Apparently it's now considered scandalous to tell the family of a fallen soldier that he died heroically, when in fact he was killed by friendly fire. (The two are not mutually inconsistent, of course.) At least, that seems to be the point of the hearing in the Democrat-controlled Congress airing the so-called "cover up" of the fact that Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire. In the same hearing, orchestrated by Congressman Waxman (who has sworn to investigate the Bush administration to death), Congress heard testimony from Jessica Lynch, who denied that she acted heroically in Iraq.
The stories of Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch have little in common except a patent desire to take America's troops down a notch -- at the cost of undermining American soldiers' morale and the morale of some family members of the troops, while simultaneously boosting enemy morale. If you didn't know any better, you'd think the Democrats in Congress were putting their own political fortunes ahead of support for America and its troops.
Gateway Pundit asks a few pointed questions:
Why in the world is Pat Tillman's mother testifying to Congress?
Did democrats believe she was going to bring new evidence to the story of her son's death?
Is Cindy Sheehan scheduled to appear tomorrow?
What is the purpose of such a show trial other than to degrade the military?
Why is this so important to democrats?
Why is this necessary during wartime?
Today's show is about as sick and disgusting as you will see coming from Congress!
How does a weakened US military help this country and help democrats?
What on earth are they thinking?
Is it a sign of progress that symbols of witchcraft will now be engraved on headstones of veterans? A long overdue concession or a bad omen? I tend to think the latter. I'm picturing a reporter and camera crew doing a Memorial Day story at the graveside of a veteran with a Wicca symbol proudly displayed on the headstone:
"I'm standing at the gravesite of Private Betty X. American soldier. Witch."
It just doesn't have an uplifting ring to it.
In another example of the left gone wild, Sheryl Crow -- previously admired singer -- has taken the nanny-state environmental control-freak routine to a new (and frankly disgusting) low. She now wants to dictate -- literally -- how people may and may not wipe their mouths and bottoms.
While we're focused on the urgent problem of toilet paper and napkin usage, Iran is continuing to put all the pieces in place for full-scale nuclear weapons development.
But not to worry. The EU is having another talk with Iran about the standoff:
The formal purpose of the meeting between Iran's top negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana is to seek any scope to justify reviving formal negotiations to resolve an increasingly volatile standoff.
That's reassuring. They're discussing whether there's "any scope" to justify reviving discussions.
The left has so demonized the Iraq war that America and the EU are now afraid to take forceful action in dealing with the threat from Iran. I fear that history will reveal the West's passivity in dealing with Iran to have been a deadly error. I sincerely hope I am wrong.
While we wait for Iran's other shoe to drop, matters medical once again creep in. I didn't know that movie critic Roger Ebert has had surgery for salivary gland cancer. In fact, I didn't know there is such a thing as salivary gland cancer. I admire the guy's spirit though:
The Pulitzer Prize winner and co-host of the syndicated television show 'Ebert & Roeper' had surgery last year for salivary gland cancer that spread to his lower jaw.
Part of his jawbone was removed, and two replacement operations have failed, he said. He is awaiting a third operation.
Ebert, 64, also had a tracheotomy that left him unable to speak. While he has written some movie reviews during recovery, his TV show has used guest critics.
This week Ebert kicks off his annual Overlooked Film Festival in Urbana, Illinois, south of Chicago. As he has for the last eight years, he will host the event.
He said people had urged him not to attend because the paparazzi would take unflattering photos and gossip columns would dish up mean-spirited comments about him.
'When I turn up in Urbana, I will be wearing a gauze bandage around my neck, and my mouth will be seen to droop. So it goes,' Ebert wrote.
'We spend too much time hiding illness. There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I'm not going to miss my festival,' he added.
Ebert said he now communicates 'with written notes and a lot of hand waving and eye-rolling.'
Ebert is still moving forward despite some major difficulties life has thrown his way. That's terrific.
Now as you go off into your day, you need something to cleanse the palate. Something light. Something soothing.
Let's peek into one of my favorite places of peaceful respite -- Cute Overload, chock full as usual with cute pictures of creatures great and small. Have a great day.
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